Andy Warhol SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! circa 1985-86 acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) This is work is stamped twice by the Estate of Andy Warhol twice by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York, initialed and numbered twice "VF PA10.079" along the overlap.
Provenance The Estate of Andy Warhol New York The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York Private Collection, New York Sotheby's, New York, March 9, 2012, lot 77 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Catalogue Essay Rendered in imposing black and white, Andy Warhol’s SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! , circa 1985-86 is a compelling example from Warhol’s advertisement series. Culled from the visual advertisements, maps, signage and slogans of New York City, the present lot marks a return for Warhol to his early career as a commercial illustrator, made evident by his apt freehand drawing style rendered in simple black lines. SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! is a sprawling slogan, executed in block, capital letters, terminating with an exclamation point that expresses the urgency and time pressured insistence of the real estate come-on. Warhol’s mock advertisements are highly sought after because of their boldly ironic use of the splashy and yet cliché-ridden language of consumerism. Implicitly, this category of his work also draws the equation between the commercial value of art and real estate. The present lot’s promotional catch line is further emphasized by his strategic off-register text, which brings to mind the generic and error prone script of a newspaper classified ad. SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! demands an immediate response, urging the viewer to participate in the frantic transaction promised by the announcement—to buy the product, or, as seen in the present lot, to sell their apartment building that perpetually seems to be an object of desire. Read More Artist Bio Andy Warhol American • 1928 - 1987 A seminal figure in the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s, Andy Warhol's paintings and screenprints are iconic beyond the scope of Art History, having become universal signifiers of an age. An early career in commercial illustration led to Warhol's appropriation of imagery from American popular culture and insistent concern with the superficial wonder of permanent commodification that yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Warhol's obsession with creating slick, seemingly mass-produced artworks led him towards the commercial technique of screenprinting, which allowed him to produce large editions of his painted subjects. The clean, mechanical surface and perfect registration of the screenprinting process afforded Warhol a revolutionary absence of authorship that was crucial to the Pop Art manifesto. View More Works
Andy Warhol SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! circa 1985-86 acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) This is work is stamped twice by the Estate of Andy Warhol twice by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York, initialed and numbered twice "VF PA10.079" along the overlap.
Provenance The Estate of Andy Warhol New York The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York Private Collection, New York Sotheby's, New York, March 9, 2012, lot 77 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Catalogue Essay Rendered in imposing black and white, Andy Warhol’s SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! , circa 1985-86 is a compelling example from Warhol’s advertisement series. Culled from the visual advertisements, maps, signage and slogans of New York City, the present lot marks a return for Warhol to his early career as a commercial illustrator, made evident by his apt freehand drawing style rendered in simple black lines. SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! is a sprawling slogan, executed in block, capital letters, terminating with an exclamation point that expresses the urgency and time pressured insistence of the real estate come-on. Warhol’s mock advertisements are highly sought after because of their boldly ironic use of the splashy and yet cliché-ridden language of consumerism. Implicitly, this category of his work also draws the equation between the commercial value of art and real estate. The present lot’s promotional catch line is further emphasized by his strategic off-register text, which brings to mind the generic and error prone script of a newspaper classified ad. SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY YOUR APARTMENT BUILDING! demands an immediate response, urging the viewer to participate in the frantic transaction promised by the announcement—to buy the product, or, as seen in the present lot, to sell their apartment building that perpetually seems to be an object of desire. Read More Artist Bio Andy Warhol American • 1928 - 1987 A seminal figure in the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s, Andy Warhol's paintings and screenprints are iconic beyond the scope of Art History, having become universal signifiers of an age. An early career in commercial illustration led to Warhol's appropriation of imagery from American popular culture and insistent concern with the superficial wonder of permanent commodification that yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Warhol's obsession with creating slick, seemingly mass-produced artworks led him towards the commercial technique of screenprinting, which allowed him to produce large editions of his painted subjects. The clean, mechanical surface and perfect registration of the screenprinting process afforded Warhol a revolutionary absence of authorship that was crucial to the Pop Art manifesto. View More Works
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